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INVOCATI ON: PART X

by Ron Whyte

New York is a MAGIC CITY —

not FAKE MAGIC like novies or Opium,

but real magic.

like -when you get hit oy a bus
and instead of 'ailing forward,
you fall backwaro,

and so it runs ever your ankle instead of your head:
magic that, years later, still catches your lungs
squeezing stops you still, to think —
did it happen? was I the one? v/as l really there?

Oh, yeah, New York is Magic City,
especially the Village, and the Lower East Side:
here, innocently turning a corner, you can —
like turning a page in a book called
THE BIG BOOK OF BIG SURPRISES —
turn that corner

and walk smack into Time Past —

pass from a crowded, shrieking, mini-skirted.

tourist-bloated thoroughfare,
practicaliy a midway of hucksterdom
reeking of the PRESENT —

yeah, you just take a quick turn to the left,
and you can stand stricken in a street
narrow and spider-shacowed
as an alley from 1910:

it should be a piece of flickery old Mm you’re
looking at,

something antique and quaint
a narrow street with deep sunk gutters,
where pushcart venders.

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harangue each other in complaints and qaes
shaped from a language you can ony place as
FOREIGN:

and Isn't this a SILENT THuvie.

and where the fuck is Charlie Chaplm.

dawdling amongst the fat mama-mia women

and the moustachioed old men.

and the naked little kids peeing in the gutter?

Other cities have their CHINA-towns.
their Little ITALY’S

New York has a real PART of CHINA, where
Chairman Mao is more in cha-ae. sp.ritually.
than the Man in Washington,
and a real PART of ITALY, where,
smelling the fresh fish stinkirg in the shadows,
hearing lifo pursued ir words as foreign and
as old as faces,
you stop and think:

I am displaced:

I have rot had my passport stamped,
and these people,
in their funny old ghetto clothes
look at me with hostile foreign eyes,
accusing FOREIGNER at me.

and so. quickly, you retreat back around the corner

and seeing in the distance the Empire State

or the thrust up flat face of the Seagram’s building,

and crowdinq you

gaily modern tourists

and prowling fags

and stro ting hippies.

and ambling Matrons from Queens taking ir the
Village,
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